Use This One Ingredient to Upgrade Classic Recipes

You can create delicious, healthy meals with one simple ingredient — mushrooms. Research shows that people who eat mushrooms have better diet quality and increased intake of some nutrients, making them the go-to ingredient for flavourful family meals. They’re also naturally low in calories, fat-free and cholesterol-free, and provide important nutrients like vitamin D, B vitamins, antioxidants and potassium.

Start reaping the benefits of nutritious mushrooms by blending them into your favourite dishes already in weekly rotation. Simply chop mushrooms to match the texture of ground meat — beef, pork, chicken, turkey or lamb — and use in place of some of the meat in recipes such as burgers, tacos, meatloaf, lasagna, pasta sauce, and meatballs to make every day dishes more flavourful and nutritious.

This simple cooking technique takes traditional recipes to the next level — playing with their compatibility with the texture and taste of meat, the mushrooms bring a savoury, earthy taste to any recipe because of their umami. Mixing mushrooms into a recipe also delivers another serving of vegetables to the plate and adds bulk and volume, generating more servings and stretching recipes into more portions. To enhance the flavour, prior to chopping you can roast the mushrooms for 10-15 minutes.

No extra pans. No complicated techniques. Just great tasting food with a healthy twist.

Try it tonight.

Learn more about blending mushrooms into your meals at www.mushrooms.ca.

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